• Classes, Community Events, Education, Eliza, Passionflower, Passionfruit (Maypops), Pests & Diseases

How to Have Perennial Food Plants & No Disease for Your 2015 Garden

Okay, maybe not NO disease, but insignificant diseases and pests sounds good, right? Plus, perennial fruits and veggies mean less work for more harvest. Eliza loves teaching the two class topics available this week at the Swamp Rabbit Cafe & Grocery. Click here to sign up for class or click here to see the full 2014-2015 class schedule. THIS WEEK:…

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• Bee Nectar/Pollen Sources, Beneficial Insects, Insects, Kitchen Gardens/Potagers, Native Plants, Nature Study, Ornamental Edibles, Passionflower, Passionfruit (Maypops), Unusual Fruits, Vining Edibles

How to Get Fuzzy Bees Drunk

We have Passiflora incarnata (maypop passionvine) growing outside our back door. I’ve written in the past about how to grow this native plant for its delicious fruit, but today I wanted to share a video of our “bee bar.” I’d say they show up at first light, but really, they never leave. These sluggish insects gorge on nectar, becoming increasingly…

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• Beneficial Insects, Butterfly & Hummingbird Gardening, Flowers, Kitchen Gardens/Potagers, Medicinal Plants, Native Plants, Ornamental Edibles, Passionfruit (Maypops), Plant in Fall, Plant in Spring, Ripe in Fall, Ripe in Summer, Unusual Fruits, Vining Edibles, Wild Foraged Food

How to Grow Passionfruit in the Backyard

If you’ve enjoyed passionfruit in exotic juice mixes or as a novel fruit from the produce section, you may be surprised at how easy it is to grow at home. The passionflower grown for commercial production is the South American species Passiflora edulis, but we have a local, native species that tastes just as good! Passiflora incarnata is not only…

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